This is a lecture concert. Dr. Linda Hess, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Religious Studies,

Her deep interest in Kabir (who had no formal education) also led to her being in Bangalore-based filmmaker Shabman Virmani’s feature-length documentary Chalo Hamara Des: Come to My Country—Journeys with Kabir and Friends. This film is one of several produced by the Kabir Project, which Ms. Virmani established in 2003 to “[bring] together the experiences of a series of ongoing journeys in quest of this 15th-century North Indian mystic poet in our contemporary worlds” and “inquire into the spiritual and socio-political resonances of Kabir’s poetry through songs, images, and conversations.” Chalo Hamara Des explored how the approaches to and interpretations of Kabir by Ms. Hess and Prahlad Singh Tipanya, a Kabir folksinger and friend of Ms. Hess, were informed by their vastly different cultural backgrounds.

NSPA collaborates with Dr. Stefan Fiol, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Asian Studies at CCM, to bring this concert to the community.